The discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system

[BjornB]

Yesterday the ever-talented people of NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that a new solar system of potential friends have been discovered 40 light years away! We are extremely excited about this discovery and happy to say that our own science ships have located the TRAPPIST-1 system as well!

 

[Kolonel]

Excellent! If this is not in the game with the next patch I will be mightily disappointed.

On a side-note, I really dig the name of that telescope.

 

[Malecord]

Yesterday the ever-talented people of NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that a new solar system of potential friends have been discovered 40 light years away! We are extremely excited about this discovery and happy to say that our own science ships have located the TRAPPIST-1 system as well!

I'm sorry but the names of the planets are all wrong. The correct ones are: Westmalle, Westvleteren, Orval, Chimay, Rochefort, Achel and LaTrappe.

Also on a side note: Westvleteren is already claimed. Don't dare send any colony ship.

 

[Roddo]

Awesome!

 

[Mr. Habba]

Is it just by chance that the system includes exactly three habitable planets out of seven or is this something that's going to happen regularly?

 

[Makesin]

Is it just by chance that the system includes exactly three habitable planets out of seven or is this something that's going to happen regularly?

The system has three planets in the habitable zone, so I guess that's the reason.

 

[RELee]

 

[Mcwynne]

Can we please get a brewery themed ship-set/portrait as well? Or at least a space trappist enclave

 

[PAnZuRiEL]

Why is the star called TRAPPIST-1a and not just TRAPPIST-1?

 

[Ketilsen]

Why is the star called TRAPPIST-1a and not just TRAPPIST-1?

Standard stellar nomenclature: "TRAPPIST-1" is the name of the system, and things in the system are named a, b, c etc, starting with the star.

 

[scaper12123]

Pls make this a starting system choice in the next update. You could definitely get some fun ideas going with this!

 

[Zoinker]

Pls make this a starting system choice in the next update. You could definitely get some fun ideas going with this!

That would potentially be pretty game-breaking, depending on your homeworld type and how the types of the habitable worlds are determined.

This could set a slightly dangerous precedent. Are we to assume that any significant exoplanet discovery in the future (and I don't doubt there will be many) is going to be added to the game? By this rate I fully expect Stellaris 2 to have a static map similar to other Paradox games.

 

[scaper12123]

That would potentially be pretty game-breaking, depending on your homeworld type and how the types of the habitable worlds are determined.

This could set a slightly dangerous precedent. Are we to assume that any significant exoplanet discovery in the future (and I don't doubt there will be many) is going to be added to the game? By this rate I fully expect Stellaris 2 to have a static map similar to other Paradox games.

I mean, it would work if each of the planets was a completely different type, one wet one hot one cold and possibly one tomb.

 

[Guilliman88]

Discovered partially by a fellow Belgian, so the name is fitting. Trappist = Belgian beer.
I will have this Beer System at all cost, every time!

 

[Qoff]

Now we just have to discover FTL travel.

 

[Dodonpa]

This could set a slightly dangerous precedent. Are we to assume that any significant exoplanet discovery in the future (and I don't doubt there will be many) is going to be added to the game? By this rate I fully expect Stellaris 2 to have a static map similar to other Paradox games.

But I want TRAPPIST-1 system in the game!!! Plus Paradox will do the game balancing anyway and I know that they have the ability to balance it.

 

[Summin Cool]

That would potentially be pretty game-breaking, depending on your homeworld type and how the types of the habitable worlds are determined.

This could set a slightly dangerous precedent. Are we to assume that any significant exoplanet discovery in the future (and I don't doubt there will be many) is going to be added to the game? By this rate I fully expect Stellaris 2 to have a static map similar to other Paradox games.

If's that's true expect them to cover a fraction of a galaxy, so far NASA has covered 2600 systems with 3500 planets with about 23000 candidates.
Source: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/newworldsatlas/

Current expectations are that the milky way has somewhere in the region of 100 billion stars.

 

[Notho]

It's that's true expect them to cover a fraction of a galaxy, so far NASA has covered 2600 systems with 3500 planets with about 23000 candidates.
Source: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/newworldsatlas/

Current expectations are that the milky way has somewhere in the region of 100 million stars.

100 million stars? Gonna need a bigger processor...

 

[Lamahorse]

@Wiz, it might make for a change for a new starting system considering all got are Sol and Denab.

 

[bengast]

I'm sorry but the name of the planets are all wrong. The correct ones are: Westmalle, Westvleteren, Orval, Chimay, Rochefort, Achel and LaTrappe.

Also on a side note: Westvleteren is already claimed. Don't dare send any colony ship.

On behalf of the Belgian interstellar commonwealth he is correct Also all those planets are claimed and considered holy because of it being integral part of our cultural identity. Entering the star system is the highest offence you can commit in our commonwealth. We warned you!

also the research project for discovering this system is also named after speculoos, another Belgian delicacy some folks made the joke the next one by the team would be called waffles